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vibrate

[vahy-brayt] / ˈvaɪ breɪt /


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“Nothing beats feeling the ground vibrate, seeing the charting of the wheels and hearing the whistle,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Spin refers to the rotation like properties of light, while the Stokes parameters describe polarization, or the direction in which light waves vibrate as they travel.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

“You can kind of feel it vibrate when it’s that close to you,” the Los Angeles native said of the impact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

"Cathy and Heathcliff's passions vibrate through their dress, their surroundings, and everything else within reach, and you leave the cinema quivering on their own private frequency."

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

Then I felt the hull vibrate against my feet, and a moment later Bronwyn surfaced holding a rectangular piece of metal about six feet by four, with a riveted round hole in the top.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Some fans do just that, but the packed stadium vibrates harder with cheers as thousands of phones stay in the air.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

"What happens in any part of this ocean vibrates through all of us," she told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Even if you never bore witness to that outrageous performance, its elemental alchemy vibrates in the band’s most popular songs, each of them calling to us with purpose.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

Each character seems to understand the others dimly, as through a language barrier; each vibrates at their own frequency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

Cleo runs in the direction of the sound, and it vibrates the ground beneath us.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Inside the machine, which looked like a large blender with a metal doughnut inside, blue and orange lights vibrated within glass tubes, while feathery electricity danced out the top.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

They also approached the spiders with a tuning fork that vibrated at the same frequency as the insects’ beating wings.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 4, 2024

About an hour after the first message, phones again vibrated with a new alert from the Home Front Command, telling people they could leave shelters and protected areas.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024

“It just hit me here in my visceral and vibrated through me and that was it,” recalls Creed Bratton of that fateful day nearly 70 years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024

It was not half as loud as the lion’s roar, and yet Boaz swore the floor vibrated all the same, that he could practically feel the words in his core.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

This conversation, which took place in a backstage trailer vibrating from the country and hip-hop tunes emanating from nearby stages, has been edited for length and clarity.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

A critical feature was how long the device could continue vibrating.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

“I always spent the end of the day on ‘Widow’s Bay’ going, ‘My God, I’m exhausted’ — because you’re just vibrating on a higher level with Tom,” Rhys said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

"It then carried on going for a couple of minutes but there was a horrible vibrating sound."

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

By the time he’d cleared his eyes, Mulch had disappeared down a vibrating hole, and there was the sound of hearty laughter shaking the cherry trees.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer


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